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A16308 The elements of armories Bolton, Edmund, 1575?-1633? 1610 (1610) STC 3220; ESTC S114354 76,668 212

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be blazed But the vnlike rule takes place where without a principall Charge of another kind as in MORTIMER'S Armories beforesaid thinges are seminated ouer the field and neyther set nor blazed to be set in Orl or other certaine order For there no regard is taken of their number and they are altogether left to the will of Art to scatter them so in painting as may best become the superficies of Sheilds Now as Indefinite is in Powlders or Gerattings so is it sometime also in those Charges which represent no liuing creature or naturall thing as in the diminutiues of honorable ordinaries whose pieces when they are not counted as in this the antient Armories of the HODLESTONES and the like neither are they termed semi but sans number The famous Armories of AIMERIE de Valence antiently Earle of Pembroke is thought also to bee of this kinde in the pieces of it which without declaring their number the Sages in blazon vsed to terme Burruleè I wil demonstrate to you both the kindes of Indefinites semi and sans number in one Coate borne by the name of THORNTON and quartred as I remember by the Lord LVMLEY An Armories very faire and goodly showing to you semi in the cinquefoils sans number in the frets The Contents 1. Of Position or Place 2. Demonstrated in a little moueable Instrument 3. Round bodies cannot bee reuerst 4. Vse of the Armoriall Mill The rare effects of Position 6. Sir AMIAS pitcheth down one of his Columnes CHAP. 35. EVSTACE LInes Colour Number thus prosperously ouer-come there onely remaines the Element Position last of foure A. Concerning Position it shall suffice insteed of all other demonstrations to giue you the vse and admirable effects thereof in a little mooueable instrument of mine owne deuise E. How doth this Mill show the vse of Position or why haue you chosen to set round bodies therein rather then any other of the Armoriall A. Round bodies cannot be reuerst therefore in the turning no deformity can follow The vse is briefly this Open or display the Instrument one way and it produceth fiue Cinque foiles in Crosse. Open or display it another way and they present fiue cinque foils in Saltoir Mooue them clozed and without displaying if toward the fesse-point they tender to you three cinquefoils in fesse Shift their station from thence vpward into the dexter obliquity they are three cinquefoils in Bend. Bring it about to a perpendicular position they are in pale And yet a little farther into the sinister point wee are lastly afforded three cinquefoils in bend sinister Thus much for Position the last Element of the foure And heere by your good fauour I will pitch-vp one of my Columns Deo gratias A Short Table of some hard words and phrases with a few briefe notes I Haue so nearly as I could and euen as much as TIBERIVS CAESAR himselfe who would not endure the word Monopoly because it was not LATIN auoided all endenization of words which hath mooued me in most places of my Booke to adde other more cleare to interpret by them such as may seeme to thee obscure as thou may'st euery-where obserue for albeit as in my Epistle I wish such a Reader as need not an Interpreter yet I must not neglect such as I haue Though there are scarce any words of mine howsoeuer they may perhaps seeme strange which other writers in our language haue not formerly made familiar and those few which are not altogether so for the which also I haue more then once askt pardon in my Booke it selfe I haue heere for thy vses collected and by conference with the learned so farre onely interpreted as is necessary to vnderstand my meaning in the places where I vse them for to interprete them at large and in all their senses were to take SCAPVLA'S or THOMASIVS offices out of their hands My care is chiefly to haue thee know mine FARE-WELL A. APOSTROPHE An abrupt or sodaine turning of our speech from one matter or person to another Poets and Orators are full of that vehement kinde of figure and Strophe and Antistrophe in the GREEKE Lyricks doe signifie other turnings or changes of speech and station as wee are taught GR. ANALOGIE The iust proportion correspondence and measure which the obiect or subiect holds with the true reason required therein An agreement harmonie or apt answering of the Thing to the considerations proper therevnto GR. ANALYSIS A resoluing or distribution of the whole into the parts GR. ANTITHESIS A contrary position or an opposition GR. AVTOMS The word imports artificiall bodies made by DAEDALVS or by any other of like skill which moue alone or houer of themselues in the ayre without the support of any other thing Such were not the Horti pensiles or Hanging gardens of SEMIRAMIS for they stood vpon pillars Nor the ICARVS in OVID or in SVETONIVS for the one was but as the fable of PHAETON a picture of vnfortunate ambition the other the true story of the break-neck fall of SIMON MAGVS the Sorcerer vnder the name of ICARVS at ROME Nor MAHOMET'S yron coffin at MECCA for that as the fame or fable is it hangs in the Temple by reason of certaine proportionable quantities of Load-stone which hold it vp by equall attractions The perpetuall motion when it is found is such ATOMIE As Anatomie is a resection or such a cutting-vp as Surgeons vse in humane bodyes at their Hall so Atomies are those things of which by reason of their inexplicable smallnesse there cannot bee any section The LATINS call it Indiuiduum and LVCRETIVS semen rerum Indiuiduum because it was so little as it could not bee parted or diuided and semen rerum seed of things for that they were according to the conceit of EPICVRVS the common mater of all things ARTICK That which is of or appertaineth to the Northern signe of the Caelestial Beare So the ARCTICK Circle is the bound of the Cold Zone vpon Earth and of the Northern constellations in Heauen The whole North is denominated of that imagined figure The fable of that Beare is famous among Poets So the Arctick Hemisphear is that halfe of the world which is betweene the North-pole and the Aequinoctiall Line GRE. * ANTARCTICK * Contrary or opposite to Arctick Southern GR. ARGO The name of the Ship or Argose in which IASON sail'd to CHOLCHIS for conquest of the golden Fleece and which by the power of Poesie is turnd to an Asterism or a Caelestiall figure of Starres in the South-sky The Armorists ARGO is in my meaning no more but the businesse of Armorie which is in handling and in which Sir AMIAS is shipt or embarked ARRAS Cloath of Arras Tapistrie or hangings wrought at the Cittie of ARRAS in ARTOIS one of the seuenteene Prouinces and at this present is vnder the ARCHDVKES ALBERTVS and his wife ISABELLA B. BASIS A word in Architecture The bottom-part of a Columne or Pillar and figuratiuely the supporture stay ground-worke or